Doctors treating cancer patients at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) have expressed concern over the high number of patients using herbal medicine concurrently with their prescribed conventional medicine or chemotherapy. The doctors who were sharing experiences in how to efficiently handle the different kinds of patients noted that many…
Uganda has today received 647,080 Moderna vaccine doses from the US government. This is the eighth batch of doses received in Uganda since March this year. Dr. Munir Safieldin, the UNICEF Country Representative , says this is the second largest batch received so far and added that this is a true spirit of sharing. “No…
The minister in-charge of higher education, John Chrysestom Muyingo has said that they do not know or have a plan for school re-opening at the moment. The minister made the remarks while officiating at the release of the Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board – UBTEB last Friday in Kampala. According to Minister Muyingo, the…
Parents and guardians in Acholi region are responsible for the high number of teenage pregnancies, according to a section of cultural leaders in the region. They particularly accuse parents and guardians of failure to monitor their children’s lifestyles. Cases of teenage pregnancies have skyrocketed in the region ever since the government closed educational institutions as…
The police in Lyantonde are investigating an incident in, which unidentified thugs gang rapped a woman and strangled her to the death. The body of 52-year-old Beatrice Kemirimo, a resident of Kabale village, Lyantonde rural sub-county was found on Friday afternoon lying in her house. She was alone at home when she was…
Less than half of the teachers in Mbale city have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Robert Wangwe, the Chairperson of Primary School Head Teachers Association in Mbale City, says that there are over 3000 teachers in both private and public schools in the city. He, however, says that less than 1500 of the teachers have…
Mulago Specialized Women and Neonatal hospital is still operating without key specialists three years after it was glamorously launched as a facility that epitomizes everything modern in a 21st-century health service. Dr Evelyn Nabunya, the Executive Director of the Hospital told their first board of 12 members that was inaugurated on Thursday that the…
The government has postponed mandatory testing for all incoming passengers at Entebbe International Airport. Last month, the Ministry of Health directed that effective September 3, all incoming passengers regardless of whether or not they are vaccinated against covid-19 will undertake mandatory testing at Entebbe Airport. Ministry of health officials led by Minister Dr Ruth Aceng…
HIV activists have raised concern about the continued high rates of HIV infection in Africa and renewed calls for strengthening prevention strategies. This follows another HIV vaccine trial that failed to make it through clinical trials – the Imbokodo study started in 2017 by big pharma Johnson and Johnson. Ntando Yola, an HIV advocate with the…
Gynaecologists have warned that cases of obstetric fistula among women are likely to increase as more teens become moms. The medical condition comes as a result of a hole created between the birth canal and bladder and the rectum, caused by prolonged, obstructed labour. It leaves women leaking urine, faeces or both, and often leads…